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Charlaine Harris’ 13th Sookie Stackhouse novel will be her last True Blood book

True Blood will finally have a conclusion, in some form or another. Charlaine Harris, who wrote the books that inspired the television series has revealed that her next book will be Sookie’s last! Harris revealed this big news In an interview with PopcornBiz (NBC Miami): “I think it’ll be total closure. I don’t go back … Continued

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Genevieve Valentine Is Ringleader at the Clockwork Circus in Episode 40 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy

Genevieve Valentine, author of Mechanique, joins us to discuss Steampunk, circus performers, period costumes, and really, really bad movies. Art by Kiri Moth Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. You can download the MP3 for this episode here, subscribe to The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy … Continued

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Neville Longbottom, the real hero of the Harry Potter franchise, speaks out

Perhaps the most beloved character of the Harry Potter series isn’t Harry, Hermione or Ron. Especially in the Deathly Hallows films, the real stand-out is clearly Neville Longbottom. So we were excited to hear Neville’s inside story from the actor who brought him to life. Actor Matthew Lewis shared a few thoughts with reporters at … Continued

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An Exclusive Excerpt from Max Barry’s New Cyborg Novel, Machine Man

Max Barry blew our minds with his dystopian future novel Jennifer Government, and now he’s back with Machine Man, a cyborg novel that he premiered in a different form on his website last year. Darren Aronofsky is already attached to direct the movie version. We’ve got an exclusive chapter from Machine Man, in which Barry … Continued

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Darius Green, the Boy Who Launched Steampunk

The rise of interest in steampunk has led to a number of previously obscure works becoming well-known. Though many people are familiar with Victorian tales of boy geniuses with steam-driven machines, there is a once-famous and now nearly forgotten poem that created the entire idea of boy geniuses in the first place. Meet Darius Green, … Continued

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Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars universe gets even more complicated

Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy revitalized the Star Wars universe, and created a new Star Wars mythos for a new generation. So a new Zahn Star Wars book is cause for celebration. Even when, like Star Wars: Choices of One, it’s kind of lukewarm. Spoilers ahead! Choices of One is a fun read, with some nifty … Continued

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Kelly Link blows your mind all over again

Kelly Link’s latest short story sneaks up on you — at first you think it’s just a concentrated dose of weirdness, a jarring head-trip like being suspended by your ankles over the ocean. But then her strange world-building starts to make sense, and you think the whole thing is becoming a demented thought experiment. It’s … Continued

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io9 Book Club reminder: Meeting 7/26 to discuss Genevieve Valentine’s Mechanique

The io9 Book Club meets once per month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. In July, we’re meeting on the 26th to discuss Genevieve Valentine’s Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti. Watch for a post that day announcing the book club, and jump into comments for … Continued

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George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire may turn out to be eight books instead of seven

Talking to the Atlantic, George R.R. Martin admits that he may not be able to wrap up his massive A Song of Ice and Fire series in just two more books. He says that wrapping everything up in two more books is “my plan, my intent, that’s what I’m going to try to do. But … Continued

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Help Apex Book Company expand the global distribution of their dark scifi and fantasy books

Want to support indie publishing in the age of book mega-corporations? Of course you do, especially if that means you’ll get more edgy horror, philosophical science fiction, and unusual books you’d never see if every publishing imprint were owned by the same company. That’s why we’re excited that indie publisher Apex Book Company, creators of … Continued

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The Most Hilariously Wrong Spoilers for George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons

The internet recently flooded with spoilers for George R.R. Martin’s latest tome, A Dance With Dragons. Some of these were dead-on accurate, like a dwarf with a crossbow. And some of them… weren’t. The internet being what it is, there were tons of incorrect, misleading and downright ludicrous spoilers for A Dance With Dragons. Here … Continued

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Ten Wizards Who Found Themselves In Science Fiction Stories

Sometimes you have a perfectly acceptable science fictional universe — full of science, and probably space travel or far-future worlds — and then a wizard just plops down right in the middle of it. Shocking? Yes. Awesome? Probably. Here are ten of the most intriguing scifi wizards. We used a few criteria to choose what … Continued

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Everything You Need to Know about Disney’s John Carter Movie

Can Wall-E director Andrew Stanton capture the pulpy greatness of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, in his first live-action movie? We’ve been keeping all our appendages crossed. Here’s the first inside scoop on Stanton’s John Carter movie — including a first ever shot of the alien Tharks! Last month io9 went to Disney’s … Continued

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University Library gets Theodore Sturgeon’s original notes for More than Human and “Amok Time”

Science fiction giant Theodore Sturgeon’s papers are being donated to the University of Kansas, after having been privately held in two separate parts until now. This treasure trove of information will prove a boon to researchers studying the process of the award-winning novelist and Star Trek writer (who coined the Vulcan phrase “Live long and … Continued

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction goes online for free

You’re soon going to have an awesome new resource for finding out about science fiction — the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, with some 12,000 entries and 3 million words, will be online for free. Would you make use of this sort of resource? Would you still want to buy a copy, … Continued

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A sneak peek at the art-packed weird fiction book you’ll be drooling over soon

Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, who brought you the amazing Steampunk anthologies (among many others), have just released another sumptuous literary and visual treat. And we’ve got a sneak peek at some of the art and table of contents. Image by Greg Broadmore. Here’s the scoop: THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Exhibits, Oddities, Images, … Continued

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George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons: Worth The Wait

This Tuesday, the years of anticipation will be over, and the fifth book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series will finally be here. So does A Dance with Dragons live up to the near-insurmountable hype? Yes. For the most part. It’s a brilliant, horrifying, depressing book that takes the characters … Continued

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10 Characters that Game of Thrones season two could leave out

There were two miracles about Game of Thrones season one: that it was so true to the book, and that it was so brilliant on its own terms. For season two, the show will have to choose one miracle. With the second book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, the … Continued

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First look at Dori, Nori and Ori from The Hobbit set

Peter Jackson has just released the first images of squabbling dwarf brothers Dori, Nori and Ori from his Hobbit movie. Check out the delightful braided beard detail and adorable (but deadly) weapons! Straight from Peter Jackson’s Facebook page comes this amazing Hobbit update: These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be … Continued

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Angry Robot Books offers a full year’s subscription for just £69

Here’s a business model that could help use the internet to save publishing from the abyss. Angry Robot Books will offer you e-book versions of every book it publishes in a year — up to 24 books — for £69. Other small publishers have tried a subscription model before, but given the tech-savvy nature of … Continued